Ifeanyi Dike seeks govt support for actors with farmlands

Administrator, Board of Trustees (BoT), Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Prince Ifeanyi Dike has approached the bureaucratic and state governments to make lands accessible for the innovative business to cultivate.

In an ongoing talk with Dike, the veteran on-screen character and TV moderator stated, this is a result of the current coronavirus pandemic that has expanded the appetite in the land because of the lockdown to contain its spread.

He said, “You can see that we are almost refugees in our land looking for palliatives. If you give medicines to positive COVID persons, without food the medicine would not work. If lands are given to actors to farm on when they are not on set or in a studio, it will not only reduce hunger in the land but it will be an additional income for them.”

Continuing, Dike said, “As a consultant for Pally Agro Farms which supplied 1,000 eggs to COVID-19 patients and caregivers through the Lagos State primary healthcare board, I know how far the gesture went in feeding them.

So, the government should please go through the various state chapters of the associations to do the needful even as oil would soon become unpopular.